Shannon–Fano coding

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Name	Shannon–Fano coding
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Compression Shannon–Fano coding

Shannon–Fano coding is a general-purpose data compression algorithm. It is similar to Huffman coding.

ZIP's #6 "implode" compression method, and PKWARE DCL Implode, are both said to make use of Shannon–Fano coding.

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